Re: [Amc-list] dogdish hubcaps, ...

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I'm trying to remember the name of the Burt Reynolds movie with the LTD in it?
That was a cool, cop car, sleeper.
It was running a big 429 or 460 and a 4 speed in a four door ltd with fat tires and dogdish caps!
I always wanted that car!
 A friend bought one of those cars with the Interceptor 429 in it for $125! He prompltly tore it up for the engine and trans :[ It was an automatic car, but still way cool! I rememebr the column shift in it did not have a low gear selection. You could only pull it down to second. That was so the cops didn't tear the trans out when taking off from a rolling start! They had a tendancy to grap the shifter and rip it down as far as it would go and floor it!

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Mark, I think dogdish hubcaps (sic) look great on a fast 'sleeper' 60's car. 
> The police set that style trend by accident! Concentrating on go without 
> flash, it's a sub-look all by itself.
> 
> When I was young the first thing any sensible car nut did was DUMP THE !@$!!! 
> HUBCAPS for "mags" or whatever. Now that even Hyundai's can come from the 
> factory with cast/machined aluminum wheels, those have no real style 
> anymore -- but no one's got hub caps today! They're cool again!
> 
> I'm 52, and until recently things like column shift, hubcaps, etc, were things 
> I loathed and got rid of without thinking -- then I looked around and noticed 
> that those things are unique style milestones unique to our era (actually the 
> END of that style era) and I think it's a shame to still routinely dump it.
> 
> Column shift and hubcaps would be dumb on an AMX, I agree. But a Rebel or 
> Ambo, low to the ground, fat tires with white letters, dogdish caps, a hot V8 
> and slamming auto trans with column shifter, still terrifies. Back when I 
> autocrossed, I used to hang out around a San Francisco tire shop. They had a 
> customer who built cars for movie effects, often junkers that looked some 
> part, he bought junk tires for them. But his personal ride was one of those 
> full-sized american cars built like a cop car with a monster engine, rumbly, 
> low stance. Original paint in fair shape, but clean neat and scary fast. Nice 
> look! I forget the make, it doesn't even matter... :-)
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